In horror, nuns and natal matters are having a minor moment right now. Next month, The First Omen attempts a franchise rebirth. First, director Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs) delivers Immaculate, a choppy affair with an impressive lead from Sydney Sweeney as a novitiate nun in a pregnancy pickle.
Sweeney plays Cecilia, a woman convinced God saved her for something after a near-death experience. Duly, she joins an Italian convent harboring murky secrets, where the nuns coo over a rusty old phallic nail and patriarchal fathers hold sway. When Cecilia becomes pregnant without 'sin', she’s told it’s a ‘miracle’ – but is it, though? Really?
